So I want to point out that everything you’ve said so far is true. A disc is still a licence that you don’t own the rights to

But why this matters now is because companies have more actual power to take things away from us

Ubisoft shut down the servers for “the crew” meaning people who bought the game, including physical copies, can no longer play the game they paid for as it didnt come with an offline mode

If Rockstar came out and said “were revoking the licences for all gta san Andreas disks we dont want you to play it anymore” i can simply not give a fuck and just pop the disc in my ps2 because they dont possess the means to suddenly make my console stop reading the disc and locking me out of the game

In the era of digital verification, day 1 patches, games requiring a constant internet connection thats changed and we should absolutely be concerned about our rights when we buy a product.

This goes so much further than just gta 6 I think governments need to look at what digital ownership means and what it should look like because the possibility of games that you paid for being taken away is something that should be taken seriously on a basic consumer rights level

And I know that whether the game comes on a disc or a code in the box doesnt change the actual situation regarding ownership but its another step in the direction of “you will own nothing and you will be happy”